Welcome to Ron's Funny Books!

That's me (bottom left).

The official website of author Ron Wiggins. Here you can find a rotating smorgasbord of new books, favorite newspaper columns, random thoughts, and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to join Ron's mailing list!

Florida Authentica

If your idea of the Sunshine State experience is to watch a college kid in a sweltering mouse suit pass out on an August day, you need to get off the painted concrete and out into the Authentic Florida of Lakes, Rivers, springs and state and national parks. You need to read humor columnist Ron Wiggins’ hilarious “Field Guide to the Unique, Eccentric and Natural Marvels of the Real Sunshine State”. For the price of a tank of gas and trifling park fees, you can have more fun than a barrel of sun-stroked theme park mascots.
Yes, I want to read all 52 of Ron’s Florida Adventures because I too, would like to snorkel in a herd of manatees too lethargic to stampede, and sift the gravel of the tannin-darkened Peace River for fossils while pretending not to think about alligators. Click here to buy your ready-made: “We don’t need no stinking day passes” bucket list!

Iowa Nice Genial Jokes for a Gentle People

Sure, Iowans are nice, but what else would you expect from Midwesterners who grew up minding their manners, moms, scoutmasters, 4-H leaders, and earning perfect attendance Sunday School pins? You'd be nice as pie too if your life was filled with community sings, ice cream socials, taffy pulls, and riding your bunting-festooned bicycle in Independence Day Parades finished off with a real stem-winder of a patriotic speech and fireworks to knock your socks off. Is this a laughing matter? Yes! Iowans represent our better selves, the big brothers and sisters we wanted to look up to. Now here's the joke: Iowans don't think they're anything special. A book extolling their bedrock values would only embarrass them. This book: Iowa Nice-The Up with Iowa Joke, salutes Iowa in the only way tolerable to a self-deprecating Hawkeye-by kidding the pants off them. In a nice way. Hop on over to createspace.com to pick up your very own copy!

The First Book of Last Times

Back in print and available on Amazon.com: The First Book of Last Times! Until you can get a copy of your very own, here is some of the sweetest, funniest, & most lump-to-the-throat-bringing bit of childhood nostalgia this side of a whiff of mimeograph ink! The first chapter is on me. If you have friends who still slide in their socks on slippery floors and sniff Juicy Fruit wrappers, it would be churlish not to let them in on the fun! READ CHAPTER ONE NOW!

Weird Snacks

Now available at Amazon.com at prices too embarrassing to list here: Weird Snacks! Cover and illustrations by Pat Crowley. When midnight snackery meets hunger-driven genius by the fridge's early light, the results can be improbable and delicious. How else to explain "Buttery Sweet Popcorn Drizzle Bliss","Peeps Grotesque", "Eric's Tasty Grapefruit Abomination","The Faux Salted-Nut Roll" and 146 other kitchen experiments gone good. Savor 146 pages of the pantry raid elevated to art.